Publish 26
Contents
The following is a list of changes deployed as Publish 26 on August 17, 2004.
Changes and Enhancements
- Various adjustments to monster loot such as gold and magic item intensity adjustments across the board.
- Tweaks to luck calculations.
- Increased cap of luck beyond 1200.
- Changed gargoyle gems from 4 to 1d4 per player feedback.
- Increased loot dropped by Betrayer.
- Modified Elemental loot.
- Slightly reduced red & black Solen Warrior and Infiltrator loot and increased Solen Queen loot.
- Adjusted Dungeon Chest loot.
- Added metal chests to spawn on plague beasts after they’re well fed.
- Ant Lions now have a chance to spawn an adventurer’s skeleton (rogue, mage, or bard).
- Bumped up minimum intensities for treasure hunter loot to be more in line with current loot changes.
- Tweaked loot for fishing, dungeon, and treasure hunter chest loot.
- Reduced loot for nobles, rat shamans, and serpentine dragons.
- Adjusted ogre lord loot to be consistent with arctic ogre lord loot.
- Modified earth elementals to drop 1-4 fertile dirt instead of 1.
- Removed non-magical jewelry from ancient wyrms, shadow wyrms, rikktor, ice serpents, efreeti, and skeletal dragons. Added 5 random jewels to ancient wyrms.
- Doubled chance to receive a super slayer weapon or instrument.
- Added tribal, deer, bear, bandannas, and orc masks as magic loot.
- Turned on the Serpent Pillars for Test Centers only to test stability.
- Fixed Tracking issue where player characters with 0 hiding could not be tracked.
- Players will no longer appear in monster and animal tracking gumps.
- Made improvements to the firehorn.
- Added firehorn to test center bank box (should appear in same bag as spellbooks and reagents).
- Added 10 message in a bottles to test center bank box.
- Made the following creatures Bardable.
- Orc Brute
- Golem (monster version)
- Gargoyle Destroyer
- Exodus Overseer
- Exodus Minion
- Juka Lord
- Meer Warrior
- Betrayer
- Juggernaut
- Meer Captain
- Meer Eternal
- Chaos Dragoon Lord
- Bog Thing
- Vorpal Bunny
- Whipping Vine
- Vampire formed players can now mount horses.
- Fixed instant resurrection bugs with horrific beast, wraithform, and vampiric embrace.
- Fixed necromancer forms bug when changing from one form into another.
- Made changes to prevent camping in dungeons.
- Added 80.0 poisoning skill for dread spiders.
- Added succubus and Semidar to daemon slayer group.